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l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

oHAnL'Es A. MYAXFIELD, or NEW Yonx,n Y.

MACHINE FOR MAKING PAPER BOXES'l Specification forming part of Letters latentNo.l 52,432, dated February 6, 18,66.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES A. MAXFIELD,

of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Making Boxes; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to thev annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure l is a side elevation of the said machinery. Fig. 2 'is a section at the line .r m of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is asection at the line' y y.

Similaimarks of reference denote the same parts.`

My invention relates to a mechanism forpressing a strip of glued 'paper upon the edge of the boxat the junction of the hottonrand.

sides o r rim and lid, so as to form a union of the circular end with the .cylindrical side of the box; also, in a means for pressing upon the cylindrical sides of the box astrip of glued or pasted paper to form a covering for the same, and turning the edges of said paper over, the one edge upon the circular end pieceand the other edge over and within the oircular rim of the box or lid, thereby a strong box, smoothly covered, can be made with great rapidity.

In the drawings, a is the frame of the-machine. b is a swinging auxiliary frame, carrying a box, c, that may be moved up or down in the said frameb', and retainedl by.a setscrew, 1, for adapting the machine to the size of the box, as hereinafter shown. Through this box c is a tube, d, that maybe slidden endwise through thel box by a lever, e,b.pon a fu1crum' arm that projects from this box c; and jf isa spring actin g against a collar,- 2, to force the tube/d to-thc.right,.'Fig. v1. A Within this ltube d is a' shaft,"- carrying at one'er'ldthe gearwheel g, and'at the `other end the box-supporter'h, that is held on by a screw, and may be removed and' another substituted for a ditferent sizeof box. In thiscase the gear g also has to be changed.

7c is a shaft sustained/ at one end in the frame a and at the other end in the arm a. This shaft 7c is rotated. bythe crank l and gears mm', and a gear, n, is provided that takes the gear g to rotate the shaft t and boxsupporter h. (See red lines in Fig. 3.)

On.- the frame a is an adjustable stud, o, car- A other elastic material, and-q is a conical roller contiguous to hand r, supported on a screw or gudgeon from the projection-s. l

The operation of the parts thus far is as follows: The attendant,y by the' levere, draws the box-supporter 7i away from the disk p, and Swings vthe auxiliary frame b toward himself.

This allows for the introduction. of al circular rim to form a box or cover over and around the holder or supporter h, with a round piece of .material to form the bottom of .the box against the iiat side of h. The parts are swung back to position, (a counterpoise, t, and pulley and cord 3- aiding. in-sofdoing and theV sprii1.gl7,.A pressing the boxbottom against the disk p, holds the same. A strip of glued or other-- wise adhesive paper or material is now laid upon theangle at the junction of and lapping upon both the cylindrical side and at bottom or end, and the handle l turned as the strip of adhesive material is guided. A- folder, made ofv a piece of bent metal,-as at 4, folds the' edge of the strip towardl and 'upon the edge of the circular bottom. This compression is completed by the roller q, while the roller r presses the said material iirmly upon the side of the box. This strip of material forms a union of the bottom or top and sides of the box, as indicated in Fig. 4 by the blue line.

` l Aslidiug spring-holdingbanp, on the arm 7 upon d may be' employed to press the circular rim of the box toward the bottom, so -that they may not separateJ during the rotation of the box and holder h. l In order to cover the box with paper or simiv lar materialit is only necessary to apply to the sideot' the box one end of a strip of pasted or'glued material and rotate the parts,- the roller r pressing the sameagainst the side of the box whilev the turner 4 and roller q fold the edge over smoothly against the bottom,

and at lthe same time a folder, 8, formed of a curved piece of metal set on aslidingv stock, 9, with a spring, 10, to press it toward the edge of the'box, and a spring, 11, to keep it down," turns or folds the edge ofthe material around into the inside of the box or lid, as seen by.4 l y the red lines `in the section,'Fig. 5, and I em` y,What I c1aim, and desire to 'secure by Lett lrs Patent, is y N al. Mounting the box supporter h in the s ilindg pipe sustained in the swinging 'frame b\for the Vpurpose of allowing the' box tc be plced upon or removed from the supporter h, substantially as specified. I

.signature this 2. The folding-guide 4, in combination with the supporter h,.and rollers r and q, for the purpose and as specified.

3. The roller 12, and combination with the box-supporter h, and

vroller r, substantially as and for the purposes In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 8th day of September, A. D. 18,65. U 1 Y' l ,cr-IAS. `A.- MArriifnn).jv

' Witnesses:

LEMUEL W.SEBRELL, GHAS. H. SMITH.

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